jvd said:
maskrider said:
Deepak said:
The problem is MC is expensive and is limited in size....if they charged $ 23 for a 100 MB MC, I wouldnt mind it! I think HDs are as reliable as MCs...MCs also get currupted! I think the best option would be to include both!
May be I am lucky, I have never had any corrupted memory cards since the PSX days. But I had planty of failed IDE hard disks. That's why my PC is running on SCSI RAID 5 for speed and fault tolerance. My working storage and backup is on MO and USB flash disc.
i've had plenty (well 2 ) sony ps2 mem cards fail on me. Never had a hardrive fail though. Everyone gets a bad product . Its a fact of life .
Sure everyone gets a bad product, I don't trust hard disk anymore without any form of fault tolerance.
You lost a lot more with a failed hard disk than a failed memory card because of the difference in capacity.
I also have plenty of backup for PS2 saves (I have 6 PS2 memory cards) and I will also save them to my PS2 HDD and my MO (I have a PS2 memory adaptor to transfer saves to PC).
Except power failure during a write to the memory card, memory card failures usually caused by bad contacts after they are pulling in and out a lot of times from the port or a bit loose connection because of vibration or others.
I clean the contacts on the memory cards periodically.
edit: Oooh, my plenty means 4, I lost some major stuffs with failed hard disks, the only approchable backup storage is floppy in those days.